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[bryonalston]

The movie that you're thinking of (where Moneypenny is a propaganda generator) is TND BTW. I agree with you that Moneypenny's character should be delved deeper into. We've hardly learned anything about her character in the past 50 years (including her name.) I'd be very interested to read a book (even a fanfic) where someone details Moneypenny's life behind the scenes. (The deepest that we've gotten is in GE, where she had a date, but was called back to the office at night.)

[TortillaFactory]

I hadn't really planned on including Moneypenny in my story, but you've got me rethinking that plan. I think she definitely deserves more attention, in canon and out.

[bryonalston]

I think I'll try to give her a larger role in my story too (however, I won't give her a first name, because that would be a bit overwhelming)

[TortillaFactory]

I agree - maybe that's something she needs to keep to herself.

While we're discussing MP, though, I'd like to pose a question to anyone who's interested...how do you think Bond would interpret his relationship with her? If someone were to ask him why he's never slept with her, what might he say? What's his understanding of their interactions?

This is the first time I've been really baffled as to how Bond thinks...

[bryonalston]

I agree - maybe that's something she needs to keep to herself. 

While we're discussing MP, though, I'd like to pose a question to anyone who's interested...how do you think Bond would interpret his relationship with her?  If someone were to ask him why he's never slept with her, what might he say?  What's his understanding of their interactions?

This is the first time I've been really baffled as to how Bond thinks...

Bond would probably think of some clever quip like "We haven't slept together, but we got off on the wrong foot." or something along those lines. I doubt that Bond would actually admit that he's never slept with MP without bringing humor into it (which is something he usually does when he doesn't have the upper hand in a situation.)

[Qwerty]

I agree - maybe that's something she needs to keep to herself. 

While we're discussing MP, though, I'd like to pose a question to anyone who's interested...how do you think Bond would interpret his relationship with her? 

Playful flirting perhaps - or maybe he'd throw in some lies. It's Bond, one can never be totally sure. Be interesting to compare the responses from both characters if they were 'real'. We know what happened when Moneypenny "tested" a certain gadget in Die Another Day...

[TortillaFactory]

I know how MP feels about him - she wants him, obviously, but knows that getting entangled with him would not be good for either one of them, particularly her. I think she cares for him, in a "tsk, dear james..." sort of way. She's probably the most sensible female character he's ever come in contact with...ergo, I believe he is somewhat baffled by her. But being, as he is, pretty intelligent, he probably has some understanding of why they've never gotten together. The question is whether he'd say it to someone else - say, a woman (or even a man) he was trying to impress.

In the books, Bond is generally more honest. I can picture Fleming's Bond saying that MP is just holding out for Mr. Right, probably b/c she's been hurt in the past. In the movies, he'd probably have to have some kind of quip for it..."close, but no cigar."

Edited by TortillaFactory, 25 June 2005 - 06:07 AM.

[Athena007]

Apparently her first name is... "Jane"

See "The Moneypenny Diaries" Thread here: http://debrief.comma...ndpost&p=422201

or

'The Moneypenny Diaries' Declassified First book in a new trilogy of Miss (Jane) Moneypenny novels

[Righty007]

We finally know her first name!

[bryonalston]

Is this considered to be in the Bond canon though? If not, then it doesn't really matter what it says in this book.

[Qwerty]

"The take on this is that Moneypenny was a real person, much the same as John Pearson's 1973 book James Bond: The Authorised Biography of 007."

[ACE]

Lois?

[bryonalston]

Who's Lois?

[Qwerty]

Lois Maxwell, one would guess.

[OrbisNonSufficit]

I saw this thread and decided, well heck, I might as well let you all in on a little secret and divulge Moneypenny's name. You see, I dated her for about fourteen months in 2003-04. We met when I was installing some bathroom fixtures in her new house, a job her room-mate Gladys recommended me for.

Moneypenny and I hit it off pretty well. We both liked the same things: sunsets (but not sunrises), long walks at night, pecan pie and an abhorrence of evil, so it was a real fit from the start. I found her to be enthusiastic if not very adventurous in bed, with a tendancy to sometimes cry afterwards, but I was willing to overlook that, because - well, heck - I thought it was love.

As the months went on, I was introduced to her parents, Doug and Elaine, and her brothers (fraternal twins) Mitchell and Leon, who both work for the British Post. Lovely people and very supportive of their daughter's career.

Which, I must admit, was probably what sunk our relationship. She is a career-girl - I must warn any aspiring suitors - and it was always 'M said this' or 'Q made that' or James Bond, James Bond, James Bloody Bond! What did that guy ever do that was so good? Could he grout an entire bathroom in two and a half days? I doubt it.

So, as many relationships go, it died a slow and natural death. We enjoyed a stiff, awkward Christmas together, tried some rote make-up sex, even planned a vacation to Fiji, but by February, our hearts were no longer in it. It was obvious she was married to her work and I had just landed a lucrative job re-fitting the kitchen on Richard Branson's island that I couldn't turn down.

We parted, professing a friendship but knowing that we wouldn't see one another again. We haven't. I wish her all the best and hope she finds happiness in the arms of some man (or woman, who knows?) Just as long as it isn't that jerk Bond.

Moneypenny's first name is Ivy.